Hegelian dialectics and ethnoclass differences

The spatialised politics of the Guarani-Kaiowa

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https://doi.org/10.34024/prometeica.2023.27.14380

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social movements, indigenous struggles, indigenous studies, geography, anthropology

Abstract

Difference is not an epiphenomenon of socio-spatial relations, but a genuine worldmaking driving-force, provided that it is the handling of difference that paves the way to specific interactions that end up shaping society and, ultimately, space. There exists not merely ‘a world of difference’ but a world because, and out of, differences. This article offers a neo-Hegelian analysis of the spatial basis of politico-economic and ethnic-social differences, making use of the striking example of anti-difference violence suffered by indigenous peoples under the hegemony of financial-rentier capitalism. There are two main pillars of socio-spatial difference, ethnicity and class, which co-determine each other and eventually result in hybrid, ethnoclass differences held by all humans and according to their specific and general circumstances. The socio-spatial trajectory of the Guarani-Kaiowa indigenous nation, in the center of Brazil, is emblematic of the dialectical basis of ethnoclass differences, and also of the political potentiality of difference.

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Ioris, A. A. R. (2023). Hegelian dialectics and ethnoclass differences: The spatialised politics of the Guarani-Kaiowa. Prometeica - Journal of Philosophy and Science, 27, 100-116. https://doi.org/10.34024/prometeica.2023.27.14380
Received 2022-09-28
Accepted 2023-06-01
Published 2023-07-27